Thorn Farmhouse Including Linhay Adjoining North East

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SLAPTON SX84NW Thorn Farmhouse 5/82 including Linhay adjoining North East

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Farmhouse. Datestone 1686, although it might be a remodelling at that date of an earlier house; extended in late C18 or C19, restored in mid to late C20. Painted and plastered stone rubble. Asbestos slate roof with gable ends. Stone rubble gable end and axial stacks with slate weathering and tapered tops. Plan and Development: The C17 house had a 2-room and through passage plan, the lower end to the right with a gable end stack and the hall heated from a central axial stack backing onto the passage. The large 2-storey bay dated 1686 on the front left of the hall is either an integral part of the original plan or a C17 addition to an earlier house. The 2 storey 1-room plan addition with a gable end stack at the higher left end is either a late C17 addition coeval with the hall bay or a C18 or C19 extension built when the hall bay was converted into a porch and the outducts added at the rear. In circa C19 the farmhouse was divided into 2 cottages; there are winder stairs at the back of the hall and lower end room and the through passages right hand side partition has been removed. In the late C20 it was reunited into one house and restored. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window range. All late C20 3-light and one single-light wooden casements with glazing bars in earlier openings. Gabled 2-storey porch (formerly hall bay) to left of centre with C20 plank door and C20 casement above with slate hoodmould and above that in gable a slate plaque inscribed Neville Tucker 1686 Fecit. Over the door is a weathered string. To right of centre a C20 plank door with a C20 asbestos slate canopy. Rear elevation: The main roof is carried down over a large l-storey and attic outshut at the centre behind the hall and to its left a lower outshut behind the lower end has a similar catslide roof and a C20 plank door. There is a doorway to the right into the higher end room and all the rear windows are C20 casements. At the lower right hand end a C19 2-bay linhay with a central stone rubble pier, open on the ground floor but tallet above faced in C20 weatherboarding; and with asbestos slate gable-ended roof. Interior: Hall has chamfered cross-beam and half-beam at high end with bar stops and chamfered beam in opening to hall bay (now porch) with double-bar stops, one end supported on chamfered wooden corbel with ogee stops. The hall has a large fireplace in axial stack at lower end the chamfered wooden lintel has ogee or notched stops and is on a corbelled jamb at one end; over the lintel there is a moulded plaster frieze of heart-shape or flower motifs, rather worn and not very distinct. The hall bay (porch) has rough joists. The higher left end room has a plastered ceiling. Roof: Only the lower end roof-space is accessible, it has nailed softwood trusses. The feet of straight principals are visible in the hall chamber.

Listing NGR: SX8093847550

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